Author Archives: Gregory Crane

Digital Classicist Seminar New England, Spring 2015

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the third series of the Digital Classicist New England. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar, is organized in association with the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University. It will run during the spring term of the academic year 2014/15. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on September 1, 2014
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New courses on Digital Philology at the University of Leipzig

The Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig is developing a sequence of English-language courses on digital philology that will begin in the Wintersemester and Sommersemester of the 2013/2014 academic year. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 17, 2013
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Jobs at the Humboldt Chair in Digital Humanities

In February 2013, the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities announced possible jobs. Funding from the European Social Fund has now been finalized and we are pleased to announce two positions: one for someone to supervise systems and text processing workflow; the other for someone with expertise in interactive design. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on May 8, 2013
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“Reinventing Humanities Publication Project” receives €1.1 million grant from the Saxon Ministry of Science and European Social Fund

The Saxon Ministry of Culture has awarded the University of Leipzig a €1.1 million grant, with support from the European Social Fund and from the State of Saxony, to form an early career research group to help develop new methods of publication, predicated upon open data and open access, for the Humanities in general and for students of historical languages such as Greek and Latin in particular. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on May 2, 2013
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Rediscovering Philology

This paper began as a contribution to the debate on whether or not the APA should change its name. A hundred and forty years later, the central leadership of the American Philological Association (APA) has resolved to abandon the name of philology and proposed to adopt for the association the name “Society for Classical Studies.” I would argue against this on three grounds. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on April 15, 2013
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The Open Philology Project and Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at Leipzig

The Humboldt Chair inaugurates an Open Philology Project with three complementary efforts that produce open philological data, educate a wide audience about historical languages, and integrate open philological data from many sources: the Open Greek and Latin Project organizes content (including translations into Classical Arabic and modern languages); the Historical Language e-Learning Project explores ways to support learning across barriers of language and culture as well as space and time; the Scaife Digital Library focuses on integrating cultural heritage sources available under open licenses. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on April 4, 2013
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Suggestions for new Greek, Latin texts? English translations?

What would you like to see added to the Perseus Digital Library, both for use within the Perseus site and for download as TEI XML under a Creative Commons license? Note that we only enter materials that are in the public domain and that can be freely redistributed for re-use by others. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on December 6, 2012
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